A formalized security program provides a documented set of your organization’s cyber security policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards. Security programs are critical to proactively protecting data while maintaining compliance with best practice and regulatory requirements, as well as customer standards.
Today, the risk and frequency of incidents and breaches are higher than ever before. Breaches affect large numbers of financial organizations, healthcare organizations, public-sector entities, as well as organizations in any industry. Effectively maintained and adaptable security programs both mitigate potential risks in an organization’s environment and can respond to incidents quickly.
Whether or not you deal with sensitive data with specific restrictions such as financial or healthcare information, your organization could be targeted by an attack.
Your own financial records, critical information, or other confidential organizational data could be an attractive target for attackers as information they can sell or otherwise manipulate to make a profit. Regardless of your organization’s size or the type of data that you handle, a security program’s responsibility is to mitigate the risk of having it lost, altered, or stolen.
An information security program will establish the policies and processes that you’ll use to protect your information.
Common program areas such as incident management plan, enterprise security architecture, and threat and vulnerability management help organizations understand where data lives in the environment as well as what processes and technology solutions are in place to protect it.
Conducting a thorough security program assessment will help you identify additional program areas that will help your organization mitigate potential risks.
We have been partnering with CISOSHARE as our outsourced security team for over 6 years. Our relationship and collaboration has unlocked significant growth and maturity within our security program, helping keep Material safer and up to date on necessary compliance requirements. Most notably, CISOSHARE has helped define and create the security framework and documentation that serves as the foundation of our security practices. They have also been instrumental in our achievement of SOC 2 Type 1 and 2 certifications over the past several years, helping us to continue to facilitate and grow business with our valued customers. We value CISOSHARE’s contributions to our company.
We were trying to understand the best structure for establishing a security program that supported all the highly differentiated businesses within our corporate family. Their roadmap and accompanying work provided a foundation that helped us set priorities for the program in place today.
Chief Compliance & Security Officer, The Word & Brown Companies
Major brands are now enforcing security standards on market research businesses of every size before partnering with them. With the assistance of CISOSHARE, we were able to quickly secure new business and solve a core business problem – proving we were able to secure our clients’ data. Beta Research is now leveraging the security program to help secure new and recurring business. Additionally, they helped us through the remediation tasks of a global client, something we would’ve struggled to complete by ourselves.
After a company spin-off of two multi-billion corporations, CISOSHARE helped me and my team design and build a security program for data center operations for the new entity I was responsible for as VP of Infrastructure/CTO. The work was a large scope that included tactical policy creation with process design as well as security architecture designs. With CISOSHARE we achieve our goal of building a program, aligned operations to the program. We achieved the required certifications as a result of the program.
Former VP/CTO of Infrastructure, First American
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Your framework acts as the foundation for your organization. Often derived from best practices, regulatory requirements, and industry-specific certifications, your framework should be customized to meet your organization’s goals and needs.
We will deliver our services with honesty, integrity, and respect. Honesty for us comes from clarity and constant communication of what we’re doing within our teams and clients. Integrity is integrated into everything we do.
We establish a caring, positive, and fun environment while designing a repeatable process for clients, both in our own service delivery and partnered security programs. We strive to improve performance through innovation and a focus on people in a learning and teaching model.
Everything we do will be delivered in a learning and teaching model using security techniques that we know work, not legacy security dogma that was created 20 years ago. We’re always innovating and seeking security solutions and techniques that work.
Everything we do will be delivered in a learning and teaching model using security techniques that we know work, not legacy security dogma that was created 20 years ago. We’re always innovating and seeking security solutions and techniques that work.
Building an effective cyber security program can be confusing, with different best practice requirements, industry standards, and organizational needs.
Our team of security experts has put together a four-step methodology that any organization can use to build an effective cyber security program.
